Raunak Shrestha
Assistant Professor at Uniformed Services University
Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolRaunak Shrestha is an Assistant Professor and computational biologist with 13 years of experience applying computational genomics to understand cancer progression and treatment resistance. Trained with a PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of British Columbia, he has held postdoctoral and research roles at UCSF and the Vancouver Prostate Centre before joining the Center for Prostate Disease Research and Uniformed Services University. His work blends data science and cancer genomics to translate large-scale sequencing and bioinformatics methods into insights about therapy failure and tumor evolution. Based in Rockville, MD, he combines academic rigor with hands-on tool development—maintaining a public web portfolio of his projects. Notably, his trajectory from Nepalese biotech labs to North American genomics centers underscores a persistent focus on building computational solutions that address real clinical questions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelors of Technology, Biotechnology, Bachelors of Technology, Biotechnology at Kathmandu University
Github Skills (27)
outliers9
seq9
factor8
bioinformatics7
prediction6
genomics6
occupancy6
segmentation6
signal6
testing6
cancer-genomics6
visualize5
r5
summarize5
genome4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
raunakms/diversity_cooking_fuel
May 2019 - Feb 2021
Diversity in cooking-fuel choice and group segmentation for promoting cleaner cooking
Contributions:53 commits, 44 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 9 months
segmentation
raunakms/covid19nepal
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:75 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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